Former York baseball coach Joubert sentenced to 40 years

Convicted of sexually exploiting children

YORK, Maine — Former York baseball coach Robert Joubert was sentenced Tuesday to 40 years in prison for the sexual exploitation of children, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Helen Fitzgibbon, who prosecuted the case in U.S. District Court in Concord, N.H.

Comment

By Susan Morse

seacoastonline.com

By Susan Morse

Posted Feb. 19, 2014 at 2:00 AM

By Susan Morse
Posted Feb. 19, 2014 at 2:00 AM

» Social News

YORK, Maine — Former York baseball coach Robert Joubert was sentenced Tuesday to 40 years in prison for the sexual exploitation of children, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Helen Fitzgibbon, who prosecuted the case in U.S. District Court in Concord, N.H.

Joubert, a resident of Manchester, N.H., was convicted of three counts of sexual exploitation of children for producing child pornography and one count of passing along those images, according to Fitzgibbon.

The charges involved two male victims in the Concord area. There are no charges against Joubert in York, she said.

Joubert is a former baseball coach who ran the Seacoast Baseball Academy out of the York Sports Center in York. Joubert also coached youth baseball in Concord and Hillsboro, N.H.

Fitzgibbon said she asked for 45 years for Joubert, but that the sentence imposed by the court will protect children.

"We're pleased with the sentence," Fitzgibbon said. "It's essentially a life sentence."

Jourbert was 59 in November when he was found guilty in U.S. District Court on the four federal charges.

He is also facing state charges, according to Fitzgibbon, and remains in the custody of New Hampshire authorities.

The investigation into Joubert began in March 2012 with a tip from a Concord woman to police in York, where Joubert had been advertising his services giving private lessons through the Seacoast Baseball Academy.